DEBATERS TO MEET FAR WESTERN FOES

The first debate ever held between Harvard and a Far Western university will take place Thursday night at 8.30 o'clock in the Paine Music Hall when the Harvard debaters meet the Leland Stanford team.

Contrary to the usual custom there will be no judges for the contest. A vote of the audience will determine which side of the question has been best presented and argued by the debaters. This is known as the English system of judging and although employed in the recent Harvard-Cambridge debate this will be the first time Harvard has used it in competing with an American university.

The question to be debated is Resolved; that there is more to be feared than hoped for from science. Harvard will uphold the affirmative.

Two Men on Each Team

F.W. Lorenzen '28, New Haven, Connecticut, and E.H. Hubbard '30, South Bend, Indiana, will represent the University. Lorenzen is president of the Harvard Debating Council, and recently took part in the Harvard-Cambridge debate. Hubbard is a promising first-year debater. The Leland Stanford debaters are H.R. Turkel '27, Los Angeles, California, and F.M. Combelaek '28, San Francisco, California.

The Leland Stanford debaters are meeting Harvard as one of a schedule of eastern debates. Tonight they are meeting Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Harvard will defend the affirmative side of the same question: Resolved; that there is more to be feared than hoped for from science, against Bates College on Saturday, January 8th at Exeter Academy in an exhibition debate.

This is the first exhibition debate ever attempted by Harvard. It has been brought about through the efforts of Mr. A.A. Gleason '86, of Boston, who is anxious to stimulate an interest in forensic speaking among the students of Exeter Academy. Mr. Gleason is acting as the Chairman of the Harvard-Leland Stanford debate.